Stephen Douglas’s motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
a. boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
b. help Franklin Pierce win a second term as president.
c. win the position of speaker of the House of Representatives.
d. spread slavery.
e. pacify southerners who strongly supported the idea of popular sovereignty.
Ans: a. boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
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